Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (1904)
Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum · leaf 40
d and cowed individual. Furthermore god E has nothing to do with the powers of theunderworld; he is a god of life, of prosperity and fruitfulness;symbols of death are never found in connection with him. Brin-ton calls this god Ghanan, equivalent to Kan; it is possible, too,that he is identical with… … This is a deity closely related to the death-god A, resemblingthe Aztec Xipe, and may, I think, without hesitation be re-garded simply as the god of human sacrifice, perhaps, even moregenerally, as the god of death by violence. His hieroglyph 26 THE DEITIES is Figs. 28-30; it contains the number…
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